So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

In fact I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole that something was left out.

Well for us in history where goodness is a rare pearl he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

I am confident that in the end common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people but the appalling silence of the good people.

I am thankful of course for the prize and thankful to God for each story each idea each word each day.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough you can see the stars.